The invention of the pocket knife coincided with the invention of the multi-tool bringing forth one of mankind’s handiest inventions the world has ever seen! The Romans are credited in history with conquering the known world, but did you know that every soldier carried a standard issue pocket knife/multi tool on their personage? Coincedence..I think ...

Pocket Knife History… Sort Of Pocket knives have a long history, where the earliest traces seem to appear with their use by ancient Romans. The oldest dated pocket knife was dated at around 500 BC and was discovered in Spain. Today, even though there are claims (pictured right) that there are Roman multi-tools that have ...

Pocket knives that folded were first made by Romans and issued out to Roman soldiers in the first century. Later they were used in the American revolution notably by George Washington himself. The Civil war issued pocket knives to their soldiers and in the 1940′s World War Two American soldiers were each given standard pocket ...